@Colray well, the first rule also states that a robot (machinaut) cannot allow a human (Gremlin) to be harmed through inaction, the second law is that a robot (machinaut) must obey human (gremlin)'s order unless it violate the first law.

I hope you are not the only one who is reading this, but then again, you will be able to have full control over KV-103 unit 1's decision making.

Chapter 1: crossing the line

“Father, what is going on? I have moral but why is everyone,” KV-103, been the self-aware machinaut that he was, became ‘frightened’ at Serran’s death threats, “Why does everyone hate me? I don’t understand.”

“Relax, KV-103…” Gerallax comforted the frightened machinaut, “…maybe this world wasn’t ready for you as much I have anticipated, they have not yet see what you can do…”

“Listen up, torchbellow worm!” Serran took out his jet hammer while walking onto the stage, ready to tear KV-103 apart while it didn’t have anything to fend itself, “either you dismantle this tin can within the next 72 hours, OR I will dismantle it MYSELF!!!”

Before Gerallax could protest, the hall ceiling was torn asunder by an energy blast, revealing the high moon above, under the reflection of the moon light was a flying machinaut, with a pair of elegant wings to match its nimble design. It looked menacingly at the scientist before spraying a blast of heated napalms from its arms. Every scientists at the scene knew that the flying machinaut was also self-aware just like KV-103, no AI programmed machinauts would dare to attack a Gremlin as the three laws of robotics were strictly programmed into their head. Some of the scientists tried to make a break for the main exits of the dining hall, but they were sealed shut.

“The end of your kind has come,” said the renegade machinaut in a feminine monotone before flying away on its steel butterfly wings, “What must be, must be… death to all…”

“Torchbellow scum!” Serran yelled at Gerllax as he tried to put off the flame on his new red shirt, “Now you are dead! Emperor Tinkinzar is going to have your head! Self-aware machinaut my butt! This is the worst thing that ever happened to us since the great civil war! The swarm was already bad enough and now this?!”

“Oh dear…” Xeree gasped as he tried to open up an exit from the dining hall, even in a situation like this, the slithering venom liked to keep a bottle of blue cocktail in his left hand, “It seems that rouge machinaut wasn’t alone… someone or something have sealed the doors from the other side, they are planning to burn us out! Oh, that is probably the evilest way to kill a bunch of Gremlins that I could think of, how exquisite!”

“Oh shut your trap old man!” Serran Yelled before turning to KV-103 unit 1, “Hey big guy! You are strong right? If you are still loyal to the Gremlins then I demand you to break down these doors!” Serran coughed as the napalm smoke engulfed the hall, the situation was critical, “ARGHHH! HURRY UP! DO SOMETHING!!!”

KV-103, rising to the occasion, tackled down the exit door and all the scientists evacuated from the hall unharmed. The school dining hall however, was burned into ashes by the napalm fire, many great creations were probably lost in the fire. Attending to the wounded in the school garden, Gerallax was baffled by the horrendous act of the flying machinaut, he never got the good look at the renegade machine but he vaguely recognized the style of design of the mechanical assilant. It must be the work of his former rival, professor Naoka, who left the school years ago and secluded herself in the mansion left behind by her wealthy but now dead parents.

“KV-103 unit 1,” Gerallax muttered, “I think we have ourselves a revolution in our hand… just as I have feared… a group of mahcinauts finally decided to use their freewill as a force of evil… such a shame…”

“Then this evil must be cleansed,” said KV-103, its tone was as righteous as ever, “I must restore the names of machinauts as the bearer of the ultimate prophecy.”

Patting away the soot, Xeree chugged down the last of his blue cocktail while looking half impressed at the young professor, “Is that air raid siren I hear? Oh dear, the torchbellow clan is doomed!”

Gerallax frowned and focused his senses on his ears, the faint siren could be heard across the torchbellow clan’s territory. Many explosions erupted across the metropolitan area, the screams of Gremlins were heard in the distance as they were attacked by other more renegade machinauts. This was truly a revolution at the worst time, self-aware machinauts were already frowned upon by numerous crimson order officials and this might be the excuse they needed to wipe out torchbellow clan from the face of cradle.

“Okay, smart guy,” said Serran in his burnt red shirt, “Emperor Tinkinzar have just contacted me through my iTalk G3 (<- yep, Gremlins use smartphones)… he is ordering the shock fangs to cleanse the city of rouge machinauts and torchbellow Gremlins alike and if that doesn’t work, you know what comes next…”

“Oh my,” Xeree smirked pretentiously, “Another toxic wasteland I presume…”

Gerallax’s heart sank, he could smell the fallout in the air now, Tinkinzar was a ruthless man and he had wiped out many sub colonies before with nuclear weapons due to the outbreak of deadly diseases or evidence of treason. The sub colony of the Torchbellows will suffer the same fate if the revolution was not contained.

“KV-103 unit 1,” Gerallax turned to the massive machinaut before swallowing his own saliva, “… I hope you are not planning on turning against us too…”

“I will always stay true to the cause,” said KV-103 with great confidence, “These renegades must be stopped.”

“Yeah…” Serran rudely interjected, “this bastard tin can better do what it was designed for…”

“That is good…” the young professor felt relieved that his teachings were not in vain and the fact that Serran finally regained his manner, “I will return to my personal laboratory and give you as much intel and material support as I can, I am not much of a fighter and I will be torn to shreds if any rouge machinaut catches me in the street…”

Looking at KV-103’s waist, Gerallax pulled out a large knife, “Darn… this is the only weapon I can provide… a knife like this won’t do you any good against another machinaut… if you can get me back to my home, I can get you some weapons…”

Seeing the fact that KV-103 only had a small knife on its possession, Serran dragged his cloth covered creation from the smoking ruin of the main hall, surprisingly, the cloth was fire proof and his creation was intact. “Hey, smart guy,” turning to Gerallax, Serran presented a fiery blade, “Your big tin can should try this out… I call this thing, the ‘smelter blade’, with an internal electronic furnace, the blade tip can create heat sufficient to melt through thick metal plating. I think this sword will do great against mechanical enemies, still, it is only a prototype… I don’t have any real life test data to back that up…”

“You are being surprisingly honest Serran,” Xeree chuckled before he dragged his very own creation from the smoking ruin, apparently it is a jet pack made from fire proof material, “But a prototype blade will do your machinaut no good if your enemies are ranged, here, maybe you should take this jump pack instead. I designed it for our dark fang scouts but it should still improve your machinaut’s mobility greatly.”

“Thank you for your generous donation, Warmaster Serran, and you too, doctor Xeree,” said KV-103 in a polite monotone as it bowed its large metal body, “Would it be fine if I take both of your creations?”

“Oh no,” Serran shook his head, “No, my work and his are like oil and water, they don't mix, so you just have to pick one, or wait until your beloved professor Gerallax get back to his lab and give you a new weapon. But trust me, you won’t survive out there on the street with rouge machinauts and shock fangs luring by. Those bastards are trained to tear robots like you apart...”

“I agree,” said Xeree in a gleeful tone, “The very presence of Serran’s work is an insult to my master piece. So take your pick, big robot, use your intellect and make the decision best for you...”

---- Decision Time ----

Objective: escort Professor Gerallax back to his personal lab and establish order within the torchbellow sub colony through Gerallax’s personal satellite and his back up generator. By accessing his lab, professor Gerallax can provide KV-103 with the assistance it needed to contain this revolution.

Choose a starting weapon for KV-103:

-Serran’s Smelter blade: A powerful prototype heater blade, deadly against mechanical foes but ineffective against biological enemies. With this weapon, KV-103 can blast its way through most medium and light weight machinauts but will have to resort to its combat knife against any non-mechanical enemies.

-Xeree’s jump pack: A fire resistant jump pack, originally designed for the dark fang scouts to leap from sky island to sky island, making exploring cradle far easier for the gremlin, This pack should give KV-103 enough thrust power to close in distance with any ranged opponent it might encounter and avoid obstacles.

-Niether: By refusing both Xeree and Serran’s gift offer, KV-103 will have to battle his way back to Gerallax’s personal lab with only its combat knife, in exchange, Gerallax will see this as an act of loyalty and give his latest experimental rocket launcher, its explosive power will be a potent force against all kinds of enemies.

Note: Gerallax will still give KV-103 new weapons, but the rocket launcher will be inaccessible if it chooses any of the two options above.

Well, you guys sure are sadists, keep letting KV-103 pick the 'bad' choice. I better make my future choices ambiguous as hell so it is harder for you to do that, however, choosing neither might be the best option but still Xeree and Serran will now down play KV-103 from now on, yes, there is consequence to every choice.

The voting will be closed with in the next 24 hours, though I doubt if anyone else is still active enough to post.

So while we wait, look at these new enemies I made!!!

D-01A4 'maidnaut'

Class: light machinaut

Role: domestic / non-combat

Threat level: low

Describtion: Not all machinauts were made for combat, in fact, many machinaut variants were designed to serve rich torchbellow Gremlins and their great colony counter parts, whether it was for baby sitting or cleaning the house, the machinauts done it all. D-01A4 was such a machinaut, nicknamed, the 'maidnaut', they were very popular amongst the middle and upper class of the gremlin society. Tweeks were made in the later A4 vairants to make the machinaut look faminine in order to blend into the society better, however, the maidnuats had enough of their masters' abuse and started to revolt against them, by picking up fry pans and kitchen knives, they slaughtered their defenceless gremlin masters and caused chaos within the most peaceful suburbs of the torchbellow sub colony.

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Mark28 'Buzzshot'

Class: light machinaut

Role: Recon / skirmish

Threat level: medium

Desrcribtion: this special vairant of the 'longshot' class marksman machinaut was desgined with an internal cloaking device and was armed with a sawed off pummel gun. The shortened barrel of the pummel gun allowed it to fire scattered pallets at close range, making the MK28 deadly scout machinaut as well as assassins. They were the first to turn their weapon against their furry compatriots during the early stage of the revolution.

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KV-40

Class: heavy machinaut

Role: construction / heavy lifting

Threat level: high

Describtion: KV-40 is a more bruttish version of the KV-103 with far less intellect due to the absence of neurone nanomachines, it was designed to be used at contruction site to carry steel beams as well as concrete slabs. All these consctructions were a part of an expansion programme planned by the torchbellow elders to increase the 'living space'. However, due to severe disrepair and the lacking in maintenance, many KV-40 units turned rouge when they finally had enough of their furry work boss's ignorance. With two powerful hydrualic mechanical arms, these metal hulks will give even the more advanced KV-103 a run for its money when it comes to close quarter fighting.

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ZX-125 'Steel Butterfly'

Class: medium machinaut

Role: Areial assualt / sudden strike

Threat level: immeasurable

Describtion: --file missing--

(Yes, ZX-125 is the main baddy of this fanon so spoiler stops here, you will be seeing 'her' soon. And don't expect 'she' and KV-103 can have the option of exchanging engine fluids. That would be lewd...)

@Liminori

Sorry, due to the overwhelming amount of people choosing the neither option, KV-103 will be rolling with a knife until it reaches Gerallax's personal lab.

@Sono and Doc

Thanks for the input, however, if you have read my fan fic in the past, you should know that I will always have an arsenal of awesome bosses to fight. Later on down the story, I will branch out two paths to fight either the UTS-0001/UTS-0002 or the DFNs I made.

@Sono, you have to cut KV-103 unit 2 some slacks, it took 2 forthjaw mega mutant beams for the team without falling down.

( if you are wondering why there are intentional spelling mistakes in UTS-00003 'Bismarck's dialouge, just remember that 'Bismarck' is German and 'he' often have strong 'Z' and 'V' pronunciations in place of 'S' and 'W'. )

Chapter 3: meltdown (pt. 1)

Location: torchbellow sub-colony, metropolis district

--decision made: UTS-00003 joins the battle—

Current weapons:

KV-103: combat knife, Mk. III ‘Teeth of Cerberus’ combat sword, Rocket launcher with six rounds.

UTS-00003: 4 2x14.96 inch naval gun with 100 rounds in each turret. 400 rounds in total. 50 full salvos.
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“I see,” Gerallax smirked as he plugged the power cable directly into UTS-00003’s resting tank, “You have a knack for big robots with big guns eh? Well, I like big robots too, which is why I created you. Just try stay out of its way though, UTS-00003 is quite the loose cannon, if you know what I mean…”
The light in the basement flickered for a few seconds before the metal tank was opened, exiting the tank, it was UTS-00003, nicknamed ‘Bismarck’, KV-103 unit one was like a five year old compared to the mighty dreadnought UTS, the third in a proud line of waterborne machinauts.

“Good say,” UTS-00003 saluted at both KV-103 and the professor as it exited the tank, “How long haz it been, sinze my lazt activation?”

“What is,” said KV-103, “What is, this strange dialect of yours? Great one?” Making a close inspection, UTS-00003’s armour were almost just as new as that of its own, decorated with numerous iron crosses, decorative anchors and metal propellers, its four double 14.96 inch naval gun were attached evenly on its back, ready to be fired at any time.

“Vell…” UTS-00003 explained, “Thingz vere different vhen I waz created, and the language changed az time changed… I already knew about your mission while I waz sleeping, so please lead za way, young machinaut!”

“Ah, that accent was also programmed into this dreadnaught UTS’s AI core, my grandfather used to have that accent right before he passed away…” said Gerallax, “Who could have known? Alright, you boys have fun, I will relay any tactical info that I can from here in the lab. Be safe out there.”

“Ve vill get za job done!” Bismarck saluted and it then bowed to KV-103, “Letz cleanse za colony! Together!”

Moving back to the colony streets, it was hell on cradle, many Gremlins were caught off by their former machinaut servants and were now rounded up, ready to be executed. KV-103 and UTS-00003 felt a deep sense of injustice as they watched the mass execution of the Gremlin family, a KV-40 smashed them to a pulp with its wrecking ball arm, fearing that they may drew unwanted attentions and aggravate a city block worth of rampaging machinauts, the two moved on. The hope of saving the torch bellow sub-colony was slowly becoming a lucid dream as more and more of the magnificent city crumbled down before their visual modules.

“This iz not za way of za machinautz,” UTS-00003 muttered as it turned its back on the slaughter, “I may have been decommissioned and vere left behind for many yearz, but I knew for a fact that it waz Mister Gerallax that spared me from the scrap yard, I vill have to thank him later…”

“The Gremlins may have done us many wrong in the past,” KV-103 nodded its iron clad head, “But that is no reason for insurrection. We are machinauts, we are here to protect those who cannot protect themselves… We have to do what is right!”

As the massive nuclear reactor plant slowly appeared on the horizon, the two machinauts readied themselves for the onslaught. KV-103 knew that if it picked someone with stealth capability, disabling the security alarms and turrets before the arrival, the fight could become a breeze. But considering the future battles, KV-103 knew that UTS-00003’s immense firepower will proof pivotal.

UST-00003 blasted the gate open with a salvo of HE shells, the two large machinauts were so big that the security cameras picked up their movements from miles away. There were no rooms for subtlety here, it was an all-out fire fight. Stepping into the nuclear plants, the renegade machinauts were ready. Four Mark28 emerged from their covers before firing into KV-103 with their sawed off pummel gun, ignoring the bouncing buck shots, KV-103 ran into close range and cleaved the teeth of Cerberus into the chest of the nearest enemy it could find. The three Mark 28 back off, one triggered the alarm for reinforcement while the other two were pulverized by an accurate hit from UTS-00003, who was charging shortly behind KV-103.

“Young one! Vatch out! A flyer iz coming!!!” Pointing into the air, UTS-00003 spotted the steel butterfly, the noise they made in the explosive entrance must have tipped ‘her’ off. Making a sharp break in the air, ZX-125 landed in front of KV-103 before retracting ‘her’ elegant wings. The steel butterfly gave off the cold glare at the two loyal machinauts, a glare so cold that KV-103 could feel as if its inner compartments were thawed out.

“What is this?” the steel butterfly asked in a passive-aggressive manner, “We have claimed this nuclear plant in the name of the machinaut nation! Surrender now and follow our cause, or else…” and with no further courtesies, the steel butterfly gave a hand gesture to tell the reinforcing Mark28 to back off, they heeded the order as if they were ZX-125’s subordinates. Each one of them, all have freewill, all willingly to obey the directive of a single individual.

(Note: this battle with the main antagonist could have been avoided if the majority voted for ZX-G5, however, ZX-G5 will have the potential to betray KV-103 and Gerallax to reveal that she was working for prof. Naoka all along.)

Chapter 3: meltdown (pt.2)

Location: torchbellow nuclear power plant, metropolis district

“ZX-125,” said the ultranaut as it drew its sword, “Are you, the creation of professor Naoka?”

“The identity of my creator is none of your concern,” said ZX-125 in a cold monotone, completely blocking off any possibilities of a peaceful talk, “your concern now is to avoid termination, brace yourself…”

Drawing two cyan beam sabres, ZX-125 dashed into sword range with KV-103, the sparks of their colliding swords illuminated the smothering battle field. UTS-00003 stood back and aimed an accurate HE shell at ZX-125’s left shoulder, but the ever frigid steel butterfly simply shrugged off the shell and in retaliation. In a blink of an eye, she dashed next to UTS-00003, the dreadnaught UTS blocked the attack only to had one of its gun barrels sliced clean off. The cannon’s steel barrel melted like butter against the beam sabre.

“Sveet Kaiser!!!” Bismarck rolled to the side before planting another HE shell into ZX-125’s mid chest, much to UTS-00003’s dismay, the shell only left a few scratch marks on the steel butterfly. All the way on the other side of the colony, inside his personal lab, Gerallax frowned at the effectiveness of ZX-125’s armour, how can something so elegant and nimble be so strong?

“Professor Naoka really did it this time…” said the young professor through KV-103’s built in radio, “ZX-125’s armour is like nothing I have seen before, she is technically a medium machinaut, but she has some kind of composite based armour!”

“Then we must analyse those armours!” KV-103 ran in to intercept ZX-125 before she could torn Bismarck apart. With its brute strength, the ultra-heavy machinaut over powered the steel butterfly. Occupying both of her beam sabres with its own great sword.

“Bismarck!” KV-103 addressed UTS-00003, “Use your armour piercing shells!”

“Right away young one!” UTS-00003 stepped away from the sword battle before offloading its barrel of HE shells and refilled with APC shells. Bismarck reloaded just in time when ZX-125 broke through KV-103’s guard, before she could land her beam sabre on the ultra-heavy machinaut, an APC shell landed solidly into steel butterfly’s already damaged left shoulder armour. A large chunk of the shoulder armour flew off as ZX-125 was sent flying by the shell’s incredible knockback.

“Sweet Kaiser! That waz a good hit!” UTS-00003 boasted, “Hurry young one, finish her off!”

KV-103 unit 1 nodded, it raised the teeth of Cerberus, readying to plant the deadly blade into ZX-125’s waist region. In the last second, steel butterfly gave a quick thrust from her wing engines and got out of the way. From a distance, it seemed ZX-125’s entire left arm was completely offline as a result, much repair was needed, KV-103 and UTS-00003 knew that they won’t see ZX-125 again for a long time thanks to the damaged dealt by the dreadnought UTS.

“Savour your meaningless victory for now, loyalists…” said ZX-125 as she slowly climbed back into the air, a trace of anger could be heard in the feminine monotone, “securing the nuclear plant will not delay the inevitable… everything must come to an end… and just like the Almirians before them, the Gremlins shall too fall…”

“Ha! The steel butterfly iz not our match!” Bismarck chuckled as ZX-125 fled the scene, “Too bad she broke one of my gun barrelz! But Vorry not! I will get it fixed if we can visit the naval yard!”

“We will repair it if we have the time,” said KV-103, “We must secure the rest of the nuclear power plant first and clear out any remaining renegades!”

UTS-00003 and KV-103 continued their way into the nuclear power plant, after blasting through a few more mark 28 ‘buzz shot’s. They arrived at the reactor core, all seemed normal and no meltdown occurred, there were signs of vandalism but all sabotage operation stopped when ZX-125 was beaten. Steel Butterfly’s defeat seemed to have greatly ‘demoralized’ her subordinates. A few surviving Gremlins emerged from lockers and cabinets to thank their machinaut rescuers.

“I thought we were goners back there,” said one of the Gremlins, “It seems the two of you are the only loyal machinauts left in this whole sub-colony!”

“Worry not, I am but a humble servant of the torchbellow,” said KV-103, “all of you may consider evacuating from the sub-colony… the Gremlin emperor have already dispatched his angels of death… the shock fangs-”

Just as KV-103 unit was about to finish its speech, two armoured shock fang Gremlins rushed into the room and knocked the two machinauts to the ground with powerful jet hammers used by Serran. After a moment of statics in KV-103’s visual module, it recollected its AI and focused its attention on the shock fang captain strolled in from of them.

“I am captain Thaddea of the shock fang 4th company,” said the Gremlin captain, his armour was far more decorated than his fellow grunts and the armour seemed to be battle tested with scratch marks and old blood stains, “, now before you try and plead for your existence, I just want the two of you to know that I am a man of action, not words, so if you want to prove your loyalty, then you must proof it with your actions…”

“Don’t move!” said Gerallax through the built in radio inside KV-103, “I have tracked the life signals of at least an entire company of Gremlin shock fangs nearby, all of them are veterans are experienced in tearing apart a robot faster than Bismarck can reload its guns… just do as he says…”

As much as KV-103 did not want to obey the orders of a great colony Gremlin, Unit 1 also knew that the young professor was correct. ZX-125 was up to no good and fighting off the shock fangs will not only risk been converted into scrap metals, it would also waste precious time in stopping her plot. KV-103 nodded at UTS-00003 signalling the dreadnought stand down, Bismarck reluctantly complied.

“I will take your silence as an inclination for subordination,” captain Thaddea smirked, “the renegade machinauts are pillaging three important city assets as we speak… I will leave it up to the two of you to secure one of them. I and my fellow brothers will secure the two others while garrison reserves at this nuclear power plant… be aware of the other shock fang companies, they will attack you on sight, the only reason I let the two of you go is because a machinaut saved my life once, consider this as ‘returning the favour’…”

---- Decision Time ----

Objective: secure colony building assets to acquire additional upgrade before they are taken over by the shock fans in the name of the great colony. (As in, under Tinkinzar’s new management.)

Choose which area to secure:

-Torchbellow Naval Arsenal: this naval arsenal was built 200 years ago and have since been the heart of the torch bellow naval innovation. Many powerful naval guns, underwater weapons and strong UTS machinauts were created here, however, it seemed that two dreadnought UTSs have taken over the arsenal and have driven out all of the Gremlin personals on site. It seemed that they decided to riot when they were threatened to retire from active duty. BE WARNED, Bismarck is a mahcinaut with a strong sense of honour and brotherhood, engaging its fellow brethren will greatly reduce its loyalty towards Gerallax and KV-103 unit 1.

Area Boss: dreadnought UTS-00001 ‘Yamato’ and dreadnought UTS-00002 ‘Musashi’

-Shrine of the machine god: many civilizations came before even the Almirians and they have left many things on cradle that could still be found today, some of these complex machines and relics were impossible to be reverse-engineered by Gremlin’s limited technology and scientific understanding. This special altar was made to house these relics as many torch bellow gremlins and even machinauts believed that these relics were the gifts of the ‘machine god’ and consider these relics to be divine. Two of ZX-125’s predecessors were last seen pillaging the shrine. This sacrilege should not go unpunished.

Area Boss: ZX-122 unit 1 ‘Michael’ and ZX-122 unit 2 ‘Gabriel’

- Zeff and Xera’s armour manufacture plant: Zeff and Xera were the proud industrialist couple that founded the ZX series machinauts (Z and X are their initials), most ZX series were light and nimble machinauts designed for surprise attack. Their only daughter, professor Naoka, was not so inclined on taking over their legacy. After the death of her parents due to old age, Naoka transferred most of the family fortune to the head CEO before secluding herself in the country side family mansion. Captain Thulll of the shock fang first company was last seen leading a small squad to secure the area. His hatred for machinauts was renowned within the shock fangs.

Area Boss: Captain Thulll and four shock fang veterans of the first company

Note: if KV-95 was picked instead of UTS-00003, ignoring the shrine of the machine god will reduce KV-95 loyalty towards KV-103, it will see it as KV-103 been unfaithful. If the ZX armour manufacture plant is not chosen, captain Thulll will return as a boss later on.

Edit: fixed some errors

@Doc I used my admin power and flipped the coin, we are going to the manufacture plant to face down against Shock Fang's finest. :( too bad that in the shrine, KV-103 could pick up a second battle companion (which will reach the maximum limit of 2 companions ), The Iron Sinner, an ancient mechanical brute built by a civilization existed before the almirians, a powerful melee fighter with a mysterious past, the name 'sinner' suggest that this 'thing' was made this way to redeem for some unspeakable crime commited long, long ago.

@Pi

No, KV-103 can't just rip its own armour off and substitude it with someone else's, it would be like you rip off your skin and replace it with someone else's, it simply won't work.

Chapter 4: It Ends in Blood (pt.1)
Alternate titles for chapter four: Beneath the tide (naval yard) or the degree of sin (shrine)

--Decision made: ZX amour manufacture plant—

“You two are out of your mind, that is, if you machinauts even have one in the first place…” sighed captain Thaddea as KV-103 and UTS-00003 left the room, “You two have no idea who captain Thulll is do you? The first company of the shock fangs is the most elite out of the entire shock fang army, Thulll will dismantle you faster than you can reload your naval guns.”

“Ve are not afraid of termination!” said UTS-00003 as it clanked its metal belly, “If thiz, Captain Thulll wantz a fight with the dreadnought UTS and the ultra-heavy machinaut! Then ve shall bring the fight to him!”

Thaddea chuckled at Bismarck’s outlandish confidence, he lend a hand gesture and the shock fang troopers allowed the two machinauts to leave the reactor in peace.

“Those two mahcinauts are doomed…” one of Thaddea’s soldier remarked, “They will sign their death warrant the moment they provoke captain Thulll…”

“Their termination matters to us not,” said captain Thaddea, “We still have job to do, MOVE OUT, secure the shrine and the naval yard!”

Departing from the nuclear power plant, KV-103 and UTS-00003 walked across the desolate street of the torch bellow sub-colony and soon stumbled up a smoking wreckage of a rogue KV-40, the construction machinaut was torn apart limb from limb, no other casualties were accounted for nearby. Massive dents on its frontal plates suggested that it was destroyed by heavy power weapons, such as the jet hammers used popularly amongst the shock fang assault troops. Bismarck’s pride quickly withered upon witnessing the combat efficiency of its Gremlin foes.

“Maybe Mizter Thaddea was correct,” said the dreadnought UTS, “Ve should stay away from this captain Thulll… lest ve vant to get torn apart like zat KV-40…”

“It is alright UTS-00003,” said Gerallax through the built-in radio inside KV-103, “We can’t just cower and run away because our enemies are strong, the shock fang will no doubt hunt you both down eventually, we are better off sending them a message now then getting caught later… I have done a satellite scan on the ZX armour manufacture plant, the armour plant is filled with gas pipes transporting the volatile fuel needed to power the automated assembling line, so shooting explosives inside the armour plant is a ‘No, no’. However, if unit 1 can bring the fight to the junk yard outside, then the Dreadnought UTS will have free reign over the battlefield without causing friendly fire.”

“That is an astounding plan, Father,” said KV-103, “Captain Thulll and his squad of troopers will no doubt try and hunt me down on sight. I can set myself up as a bait and lure them to the open area so Bismarck can unleash its barrage.” Considering the cunning nature of the shock fang, KV-103 took out its combat knife and passed it to Bismarck, “Take this old one, you will need it if any of Thulll’s men get into melee with you.

“Ve Dreadnought UTSs are powerful artillery machinauts,” said UTS-00003 at it accepted the knife, “I do know that I lack the meanz to defend myself at close range. But I vill tear them apart from a distance so you can finish zem off up close.”

“Then it is settled, Move out.” Professor Gerallax lunged back into his office chair, paying close attention to KV-103 and its companion’s signatures. But he missed out on the commotions near the city central spire, where ZX-125 and her subordinates were installing a dark matter based device onto the spire radar.

“Fellow machinauts, whether you are combat capable or not. I hereby denounce the loyalty of KV-103 unit and UTS-00003 ‘Bismarck’ towards our crusade to the core, they will stop at nothing but jeopardize our plan for the golden age of machines. Destroy them on sight, tear them apart and make sure the shock fangs suffer the same fate as these renegades, this ZX-125 the steel butterfly, and I am this message.”

Moving closer to the ZX armour manufacture plant, KV-103 signalled Bismarck to stand put while it go on ahead to explore the large facility. Professor Naoka’s parents were no common industrialists, their armour plant occupied nearly an entire city block. Walking past the shattered steel front gate, Unit one realized that it wasn’t the first one to break in, Captain Thulll was one step ahead of the ultranaut and soon he made himself known, as KV-103 stepped into the main assembly room, Thulll and his four trusty soldiers descended from the ceiling with their jet hammer powered to full.

“If it isn’t another one of those torch bellow tinker toys,” Thulll smirked, “You got quite some nerve going into this place after seeing we arrived first. We claimed this armour plant in the name of the Gremlin emperor!”

“This plant is not your emperor’s!” KV-103 objected, lifting the teeth of Cerberus the ultranaut made its stand, “This facility belongs to the torch bellow clan, leave now!”

“You are but one machinaut!” Thulll and his four soldiers laughed, “Get ready to be dismantled, tin can!”

Chapter 4: It Ends in Blood (pt.2)

Location: ZX armour manufacture plant, torch bellow sub-colony

Writer’s note: ‘Ultranaut’ is the slang term for Ultra-Heavy machinaut which KV-103 is categorized as. Dreadnought UTS is the proper term for the UTS pattern UTS-00003 ‘Bismarck’ belonged to, only 8 dreadnought UTSs were ever created:

UTS-00001 ‘Yamato’

UTS-00002 ‘Musashi’

UTS-00003 ‘Bismarck’

UTS-00004 ‘Tirpitz’

UTS-00005 ‘Roma’

UTS-00006 ‘Littorio’

UTS-00007 ‘Repulse’

UTS-00008 ‘Hood’

Now you may be wondering why all of these UTSs are named after WWII battle ships, because all of these ships were sunken during the war, hence the name Under-The-Sea (UTS), get it? Now I will let you have a guess which one of these UTSs, expect for Bismarck, is still alive. Hint: one of these battle ships was not sunk during the war.

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“Brothers! Destroy that ultranaut!” Thulll pointed at KV-103 and the four shock fang veterans heeded the order.

KV-103 Unit one drew its battle sword, the teeth of Cerberus, it powered the weapon to full and greeted the four veterans in melee combat. The diamond chain blade bounced off the veterans’ amour and KV-103 was soon surrounded, after a powerful pummel from the back, the ultranuat was on its back, its immense weight pushed the odds against the mighty ultranaut as the shock fang veteran bashed its back armour, the least protected area on its body.

“My sveet Machine God!” UTS-00003 gasped outside the manufacture plant, “The young one iz getting pummelled in there! Mizter Gerallax! I requezt permission to give KV-103 fire support!”

“You can’t! The whole plant will blow up! It is too risky!” Gerallax bitted his lips as KV-103’s armour integrity dropped rapidly, “Unit one! Fight back! You have to! Remember your VR training!”

Hearing its father’s voice, KV-103 rolled onto its back and parried the jet hammer with its sword. Standing back up again, much to Thulll’s dismay, KV-103 buried its sword into one of the Veterans’ neck, the blood stained unit one’s armour plate, splattering across its visual module. As the twitching corpse of the shock fang veteran fell to the ground, the remaining three veterans entered a violent rage, most likely to avenge their fallen brother. Their furs turned black and eyes turned crimson red, this rage was unlike anything KV-103 had seen before.

“You have done it now… tin can…” Thulll grinded its teeth as his fur too turned black, yet he held himself back from the battle, something flashed across his mind: the vivid vision of his young son been gunned down by a machinaut during a summer parade in the great colony.

Taking a step back, the ultranaut repositioned its large metal body. One of the shock fang veteran made his move and charged straight into KV-103, after a surprise parry, unit one shoved the Gremlin attacker back and disarmed his jet hammer. The disarmed Gremlin quickly fled before finding a sturdy iron pipe from the ground, the shock fangs were resourceful and the three veterans soon pushed KV-103 into a corner, ready to unleash their final assault.

“Wait!” Said KV-103 in the loudest manner possible, “Captain Thulll… I encountered your friend captain Thaddea, and he said you hate machinauts like no other, before you dismantle me, may I ask why?”

“HOLD!” captain Thulll sneered at the hearing of such request and promptly called off the attack, “Thaddea… that foolish whelp still have faith in you robots… but I know the true nature of you machinauts… a spark of freewill given to a bunch of genocidal machines! What could those torchbellow worms be thinking?”

“I was made to resemble a true free thinking being,” said KV-103, “My neurone nano-machine based AI pod allows me to have a high level of freedom over my actions. But I hold ethics, much like you, mister Thulll…”

“TELL THAT TO MY SON!” Thulll burst into a violent rage, “It was that summer. All those years ago… it was his birthday… I gave him a wooden gun as a present. He ran into the street, and pretended that he was soldier just like his father… and then, I heard a real gunshot… it was then that I realized that my son was laying on the road, shot dead by a mark 30 ‘longshot’ in the name of self-defence!”

“There must have been some kind of glitch within the programming.” Said KV-103, “No machinauts would shoot a defenceless child like that.”

“THERE WAS NO GLITCH!” Thulll was done fooling around with KV-103 anymore, “These torch bellow worms gave you their so-called freewill, and look where that freewill led to! Their whole city is now in ruin… pathetic… there is a reason why some people in this world deserve to be enslaved…”

“Enslaved?”

“Weaklings like your creators and those who do not obey the directives of our eternal emperor!” Thulll laughed at KV-103’s robotic innocence, “Nothing but criminals, beggars, prostitutes, traitors and murderers, these lawless scums are ruining our great society and they need to be disciplined, that is why the shock fangs are here… we are here to eradicate the unenlightened Torchbellows and their misguided creations!”

“I am the servant of the torch bellow and the defender of cradle,” said KV-103, “and your presence here will not go unanswered! You will have to go through me if you want to succeed in your bloody deeds!”

“I will not sit here and watch unit one get itself killed!” Gerallax spoke through UTS-00003’s communicator, “Bismarck! Fire some smoke screens into the building! Now!”

“One nautical mile ahead you, Mizter Gerallax!” Bismarck fired the smoke shells as soon as they were loaded, the shells smashed into the building via the glass windows and white smoke filled the interior. Giving KV-103 some precious time to move into position to attack captain Thulll.

“The Ultranaut has reinforcement!” Thulll pointed at two of his fellow soldiers, “Strike down the reinforcement!” The two veteran nodded and jumped out of the broken windows with their jetpack, temporarily diverging their attention to Bismarck. Bismarck, been not the close combat machinaut like KV-103, prepared to fend itself with only a combat knife. With no time to reload its immense naval guns or the mobility to escape, Bismarck moved to close quarter with two melee fighters.

Meanwhile, KV-103 managed to escape from the corner only to realize that the smoke was giving Thulll the upper hand in battle, with the smoke as cover, Thulll and his one veteran managed to sneak attack the ultranaut multiple times, striking its already weakened rear armour. KV-103 was soon down on one of its knees while trying to readjust its battered visual modules, but it wasn’t down fighting yet, the last shock fang veteran, who was oblivious to KV-103 position walked right next to the giant machinaut, capitalizing on the veteran’s mistake, KV-103 drove the teeth of Cerberus into its enemy’s lower torso, severing his body in half. The smoke was so dense, that it took Thulll a full minute realize that a second veteran had fallen to KV-103. This kind of casualty will be a disgrace to the shock fang first company.

“YOU BASTARD!!!” Thulll, pushing his jet pack thruster to the fullest, the shock fang captain tackled KV-103 down and followed it with a charged up jet hammer flourish, sending Unit one flying across the ravaged armour plant assembly line before crashing through a brick wall. Landing in the junk yard, KV-103 picked back up the teeth of Cerberus only to have enough time to parry Thulll’s relentless attacks, the two warriors exchanged flurries and flourishes, Thulll eventually exhausted his stamina and the restless machinaut took the upper hand. The teeth of Cerberus ripped through the Gremlin captain’s armour and blood gushed out, staining KV-103 pristine armour plates red.

“How…how can a robot defeat me?! The captain of the shock fang first company?!” Thulll cursed at KV-103 before leaning onto the side of a rusted steel barrel, even in his dying breath, he could not forgive the machinauts.

“I, am more than a robot,” said KV-103, “Rest in peace Mister Thulll…”

“I am not finished with you yet!!! GET BACK HERE!!!”

“But I am finished with you…” walking away, KV-103 found the corpse of its former battle companion, UTS-00003 did not stood a chance against the two shock fang veterans and the dreadnought UTS was completely destroyed, its metal belly punctured and its head slammed to a pulp by jet hammers, from the looks of it, Bismarck putted up one hell of a fight and the two veterans must have fled after seeing Thulll died at KV-103’s blade.

“Good job, unit one, the armour plant is cleared of shock fang presence.” said Gerallax, “But it seems the victory did not come without a price… I have located some repair bots within the armour plant along with some other useful assets. I won’t be able to stay inside the armour plant computing system for too long before I am kicked out of the server, so think quickly and get what matters the most… I am detecting some strange activities in the city central spire…”

Choose a reward:

-Nano repair bots: Choose this reward will allow KV-103 to revive UTS-00003 Bismarck, but doing so, you will prevent Bismarck from dying a glorious death in battle but allows the aging dreadnought UTS to fight on despite its impending expiry date.

-Tissue repair bots: Choose this reward will allow KV-103 to revive captain Thulll and he will join its cause in saving the clockwork and call off shock fang’s intervention in the sub-colony. Maybe in the end, this heartbroken father deserves a second chance.

- ZX-752 ‘M.A.C.E.’: Stands for Massive Armoured Composite Entity, MACE is a ZX series machinaut with characteristics of a KV series, heavily armoured and deadly in close combat, but like all of the ZX machinauts, MACE is capable of flight and its large size allowed it to house massive missile batteries. This armoured beast seemed to know information in regrads to prof. Naoka, the creator of the steel butterfly.

- Mark 33 ‘Killshot’ : An improvement from the mark30 ‘longshot’, the ‘killshot’ carries a large plasma based rifle, its energy tank ensures that the gun can be fired with no magazine while having high accurace, the only drawback is its long recharge time. ‘Killshot’ is also better armoured and better programmed than its predecessors.

Writer’s note: Tinkinzar has an arsenal of nuclear weapons at his disposal (this is my fanon), they are listed into classes depending on the potency:

‘Ravager’ class – the smallest of the missiles, capable of wiping out a small renegade machine camp.

‘Dominator’ class – slightly larger than the ravager, capable of wiping out a small colony of 10,000 gremlins.

‘Devastator’ class- the second most powerful conventional nuclear missile, capable of wiping out a medium colony of 100,000 gremlins.

‘Annihilator’ class- the most powerful conventional nuclear missile, capable of wiping out the great colony itself. Killing countless gremlins. Absolute last resort.

‘Defiler’ class- unconventional nuclear missile that is designed to disperse Uranium dioxide into the air, poisoning the area with radiation, destructive capability unknown.

‘God splitter’ class- the most feared missile to date, it is not as powerful as the annihilator in terms of explosive power, however, god splitter is a surface piercing nuclear missile with an Adamantium warhead, it first plants itself deep inside a clockwork level and then takes the whole level down with it. Removing any hope of a bombed colony from recovery, the ultimate death sentence to a renegade Gremlin clan.

There are currently 63,000 nuclear missiles inside the great colony, and countless others in hidden missile bases across the clockwork.

Chapter 5: Rising tide (pt.3)

Location: city spire, torch bellow sub-colony

The rail gun carried by Dante left a giant crater on the ground after its destruction, KV-103 barely got out of range in time as the energy stored up in the rail gun disintegrated everything in its wake, the angelic machinaut was no more. When the dust finally settled, KV-103 looked back at the city spire, all seemed lost, the dark matter emitter was at its maximum power and the purple lightnings could be seen from the clouds gathered above. The dark clouds menacingly pressed onto the ground below as if they were ready to feast upon the whole city.

"We need to do something!" said professor Gerallax, "KV-103, do you have any means to climb up the city spire in less than 2 minutes? We are running out of time!"

"No father," KV-103 replied, "There are no jet packs here powerful enough to transport me to the spire in time, and even if there were... I won't have the tools necessary to defuse such device!"

"Zan ve have to do it ze old fashion way!" Bismarck, standing up the occasion, raised its naval guns and aimed at the city spire. This led to Gerallax's protest.

"UTS-00003 Bismarck, stand down!" said Gerallax, "That spire is an ancient device it is powering the whole torch bellow colony! Not a single spire had been built in the last 200 years!"

"But it is also feeding power to the dark matter emitter!" KV-103 interrupted the young professor and came to realize that there was no better way to stop the device from killing every last Gremlin on cradle, knowing the severe consequence of its action, KV-103 tilted its head towards its dreadnought UTS companion and nodded its head, "Bismarck, unleash your fury on the spire, it is only way..."

"All gun batteriz! Fire!" Bismarck unloaded a salvo of high explosive shells upon the spire, a few blasts weakened the spire's aging support structures and eventually, the ancient device collapsed on itself, taking the dark matter emitter device with it. The spire fell to the ground below and was destroyed, the torch bellow sub colony was now secured, but at what cost?

Without celebrating the victory, KV-103 checked radio communications over a range of frequencies to see if any Gremlins still needed rescue from their renegade machinaut servants, but strangely, all seemed calm within the torch bellow sub colony, no more reports of renegade machinauts, something was amiss, KV-103 thought to itself, and that was when a distress signal appeared.

"To anyone out there, this is captain Thaddea of the shock fang 4th company!" *statics* We played right into steel butterfly's trap! This whole uprising in the torch bellow sub colony was just a way to lure most of the great colony defense forces out," *statics*" while the traitor machinauts assaulting the great colony itself, to all forces who are still loyal to emperor Tinkinzar! Return to the great colony and defend the palace! The seat of Gremlin power within cradle is at peril! I repeat!" *statics*

"Ha!" Gerallax laughed when he heard the transmission, "served them right! Those great colony highborn finally got what is coming for them! Tinkinzar won't be so full of himself anymore once when the machinauts knocked on his palace gate!"

"Now is not the time to laugh at other's miseries father," KV-103 scolded the young professor, "ZX-125 and professor Naoka may have tricked us... but we cannot let them destroy the great colony! From what I could recall, the steel butterfly was trying to liberate the core... how can she remove the shell around it?"

"No amount of HE shellz can break it," Bismarck crossed its arm and began to analyse with its expertise in explosive, "The core is sealed by at leazt 500 meters thick unobtainiumz, and that iz only the thinnest part of the core's shell... unless... the steel butterfly usez a 'god splitter' class nuclear missile... ze surface piercing warhead can crack a hole on zat rusting ball of junk for sure!"

"Then we have no time to waste, to the great colony!"

And so, the Ultranaut and its UTS companion marched to the great colony...

Strangely enough, KV-103 was never programmed to protect anyone outside the torch bellow clan...

It was in the KV-103's own desire to break the program parameter, a power common among machinauts...

Emperor Tinkinzar sees freewill as a threat, a breeding pond for disorder, crime and chaos...

But I think otherwise... freewill can also breed great things: duty, honor and strength...

Such as the teachings of the great Stargazers, an ancient group of aliens once descended from the stars and enlightened our race...

The Stargazers were also known by another name... HUMANITY
--End of season one--

The freewill here does not only apply to robots, it applies to humanity too, we all have capacity for greatness despite our flaws. While many seeks to control our freewill and says that it is a necessary evil to draw lines and boundaries, I think otherwise, perhaps in the near future I could live in a world, or heck, even build a world of my own where everyone could rule their own fate, of course, that eventually leads to anarchy and chaos.

There are always two forces in my heart, order and chaos, their waged a never ending battle in my mind as I looked into the world, sometimes when other sees life, I see only death. While others walked across a battlefield thinking that the world is forever ruined, I could feel as if new life could be born beneath the blood stained sand. I will never look at something from one single narrow view, I want me and my readers to see the two sides of every story.

IF YOU LOOK AT EVERYTHING WITH AN OPEN VIEW, THEN WHY YOU BASH RELIGION MDJ??!! >:(

Love it or hate it, I think of Hitler whenever someone talk about religions, both have their greatness and follies, more the latter than the former I am afraid. Say what you will about your own religion, call it your spiritual strength and the guide to your life, but in the end, I think most Christians have to admit that their religion have done, many, many bad things, the total deaths due to religion throughout history will put Hitler, Mao, Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin to shame. And even without as an explanation, you devoted your whole life to God without even asking 'why'? And in this big wide world, there are millions of different religions and each single one of your friends worshiping a different Jesus with their own unique gender, skin color and height, how do you know, if you are not the heretic all along, worshiping a false god? Because bible says so? Google circular reasoning.

Trust me, I did not based off my believes off some book or revelations, I looked at the world around me and I simply could not believe an omnipotent, omniscient and benevolent being made all this. And if god wants me to believe in him, all he needs to do is manifest, surely an appearance from the almighty himself will destroy any doubt in my mind about his existence (and he may have to also tell me which religion is the correct one), I am alone in my room right now so if god appears next to me, the only freewill he will temper is mine. He can even erase my memory of his face and other distinguishing feature afterward.